Daily Assignments

Instructions for the smaller, daily assignments. These should be posted to the class website — categorized appropriately — before you come to class the day it’s due.

1. Meet the Class

(Please see the “How to post to our class website” in the INSTRUCTIONAL section of this site.)

Write a brief introduction of yourself (250-ish words).

Then add two visuals that tell us something about you — what do you do? what are your values? what’s important to you? what do you really, really like?

Finally, add a mug shot — a small head shot photo that shows your face.

For an example, see the “meet your instructor” link. You may arrange your photos however you like for this post.

Category: Meet the class

2. Phone Photos

Practice taking photos with your phone using the techniques we talked about in class.

Take some with people in them and some without.

Play with light.

Make sure the photo has a focal point/subject.

Practice shooting using the rule of thirds.

Please try to not take photos of posed subjects if you can avoid it.

Post your best three — at least one of them must have a human subject. Don’t use any filters. (Post all in the same post; no commentary necessary.)

Category: Phone Pics

3. Photoshop Tutorials

Complete these step-by-step Photoshop tutorials.

Size them (Image/Image Size in Photoshop) to around 400 pixels wide each.

Save each of your finished photos as a JPEG using your last name in the file name and then post them all in one post.

NOTE: On the duo-tone tutorial, you’ll have to switch the mode BACK TO RGB after you make it a duo-tone. Then it will let you save it as a JPEG. (Our website won’t accept .eps files.)

The download folder here a PDF with step-by-step instructions and all the photo files you’ll use in the tutorials. If you’re on a Mac, the folder will probably unzip it when it downloads — likely sending the folder to the DOWNLOADS folder. Grab it from there and copy it to your hard drive or flash drive.

Open a new InDesign file and recreate this ad. We’ll walk through this together in class before it’s due. If you missed class, you might need to find a buddy to show you some of the basics, or rely on online video tutorials for InDesign.

Read the Layout Sins chapter handed out in class. Find (in your environment, not online) examples of five of the layout sins outlined in the reading (and in the introduction in class). Take a picture of each and post the pictures along with one sentence each that names/describes the sin.